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Science of the Comstock - Citations

Citations

Citations and References, for the whole web page, Science on the Comstock

Images: Except for the citations noted here, the pictures used were created or photographed by team members, Lindsay Craig, Beth Price, or Collette Craig.

Diagram of Square-Set Timbering at "Timbering" and "Influence of Mining" from Purkey, B.W., and Garside, L.J., Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 19, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995, p. 60. Permission by e-mail message from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

Photographs of the Brunswick Mill (interior and outside) on the Carson River at "Ore Processing" from Purkey, B.W., and Garside, L.J., Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 19, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995, p. 76. Permission by e-mail message from Keck Museum curator, Tom Lugaski.

Photograph of a painting of the Belcher Mine as a whole and a small selection of a driller at "Mining Tour" from Tingley, J.V., Horton, R.C., and Lincoln, F.C., Outlines of Nevada Mining History, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 15, University of Nevada, Reno,1993, p.13. Permission by e-mail from Dick Meeuwig, NBMG editor.

Map of the Geology of Virginia City area at "Mining Tour" from Purkey, B.W., and Garside, L.J., Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 19, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995, p. 44. Permission by e-mail message from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

Photograph of the inside of a deep mine at "Mining Tour" from Tingley, J.V., Horton, R.C., and Lincoln, F.C., Outlines of Nevada Mining History, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 15, University of Nevada, Reno,1993, p.15. Permission by e-mail from Dick Meeuwig, NBMG editor.

Diagram of mining methods at "Mining Tour" from Purkey, B.W., and Garside, L.J., Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 19, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995, p. 58. Permission by e-mail message from NBMG editor, Meeuwig.

Photograph of ore chutes and carts at "Mining Tour" photograph taken by Beth Price of a Nevada State Museum mining exhibit, permission by letter from Robert Nylen, Nevada State Museum History Curator III.

Diagram of a cross section of the Sutro Tunnel at "Mining Tour" from Purkey, B.W., and Garside, L.J., Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 19, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995, p. 62. Permission by e-mail message from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

Map of the Watershed of the Truckee River at "Influence of Mining" adapted from Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Website, Educational Series 29, March 1999. Permission by e-mail message from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

Photograph of Square-Set Timbering at "Influence of Mining" photograph taken by Beth Price of a Nevada State Museum mining exhibit, permission by letter from Robert Nylen, Nevada State Museum History Curator III.

Map of the Virginia City-Lake Tahoe area at "Influence of Mining" from Purkey, B.W., and Garside, L.J., Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 19, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995, p. 54 and 55. Permission by e-mail message from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

Painting of an assayer with a bit of grindstone at "Scams" from Lechler, P., Gold from Water (and other Mining Scams), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 22: Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997. p. 4. Permission by e-mail from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

Painting of an assayer running out of town at "Scams" from Lechler, P., Gold from Water (and other Mining Scams), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 22: Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997. p. 5. Permission by e-mail from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

Painting of a gold scam promoter at "Scams" from Lechler, P., Gold from Water (and other Mining Scams), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 22: Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997. cover picture. Permission by e-mail from NBMG editor, Dick Meeuwig.

References:

Bugbee, E. E., A Textbook of Fire Assaying, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1940. pp. 1-20.

Dennis, W.H., A Hundred Years of Metallurgy, London: Gerals Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1963, p. 282-287.

Galloway, J.D., Early Engineering Works Contributory to the Comstock, University of Nevada Bulletin 5, Reno, Nevada: Nevada State Bureau of Mines and the Mackay School of Mines, 1947.

Hafferty, J., L. B. Riley, and W. D. Goss, A Manual on Fire Assaying and Determination of the Noble Metals in Geological Materials, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1445, Washington DC, 1977, pp. 1-10.

Lechler, P., Gold from Water (and other Mining Scams), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication 22: Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno, 1997.

Lechler, P., "Mercury Contamination of the Carson River," Nevada Geology, Quarterly Newsletter of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Winter, 1992, http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/Newsletters.html

Moore, J.G., Geology and Mineral Deposits of Lyon, Douglas, and Ormsby Counties, Nevada, Reno, Nevada: Nevada Burear of Mines and Geology Bulletin 75, 1969, p. 1-31.

Purkey, B.W., and Garside, L.J., Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area. Reno, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 19, University of Nevada, Reno, 1995, pp. 41-90.

Smith, Grant H., The History of the Comstock Lode, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Nevada Press, Reno, NV, 1966 and 1998, p. 41.

Thompson, James V., "Silver Recovery by Older Methods," Engineering and Mining Journal, June 1991, p. 39-41.

Tingley, J.V., Horton, R.C., and Lincoln, F.C., Outlines of Nevada Mining History, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) Special Publication 15, University of Nevada, Reno,1993, pp. 3-23.

Tingley, J., "Salt and Silver", Nevada Geology, Quarterly Newsletter of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Summer, 1990 http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/Newsletters.html .

Permissions

From: Jon Price <jprice@unr.edu>
To: The Price Family <aaejprice@worldnet.att.net>; <bprice@washoe.k12.nv.us>
Subject: Re: permission for use of the gold bar picture
Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 7:10 AM

Beth -

You have permission to use any photographs taken by employees of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, including ones published in Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology bulletins and reports. You also have permission to use any graphs, charts, drawings, or other figures and to quote freely from our publications.
Thank you for choosing to use these in your Web site.

Sincerely,

Jonathan G. Price
Director/State Geologist

At 08:54 PM 11/04/1999 -0800, The Price Family wrote:
>
> Hello Jon,
>
> I used the picture of the gold bar from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology in our Web site, "The Science of the Comstock," that I had gotten oral permission to use. Could I please have written permission for its use? E-mail permission is fine.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Beth

**********************************************
Jonathan G. Price
Director/State Geologist
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
University of Nevada, Reno/Mail Stop 178
Reno, Nevada 89557-0088
OFFICE TELEPHONE: 775-784-6691 extension 126
HOME TELEPHONE: 775-329-8011
FAX: 775-784-1709
E-MAIL: jprice@unr.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Meeuwig <dmeeuwig@unr.edu>
To: The Price Family <aaejprice@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: Permission to use pictures from NBMG publications

>Hi, Beth,
>
>You have permission to use all of the NBMG figures you listed below with
>the possible exception of the two Keck Museum pictures. You should probably
>ask Tom Lugaski (lugaski@mines.unr.edu) to be sure.
>
>I'm not sure about the Nevada State Museum. You could call them at : (775)
>687-4810.
>
>Dick
>
>
>At 09:08 PM 8/8/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> Hello Dick,
>Jon, a couple of other teachers, a high school student, and I are making a
>web site about Virginia City for a competition. Because the Bureau has such
>good pictures in its publications, we wondered if we could have permission
>to use the pictures. As usual, things are coming together just before the
>deadline for submittal. We have to provide evidence of permission (I think
>e-mail is fine) to use these pictures in our site which gets finalized
>August 15. Can you give us permission by then?
>So far, these are the ones we have incorporated into our web site:
>From Special Publication 22, Gold from Water: all 3 of Larry Jacox's
>pictures. Jon gave us the color pictures to use.
>Geologic and Natural History Tours in the Reno Area, "Map of the Virginia
>City-Lake Tahoe area..." on page 54-55, adaptation of square set timbering
>diagram on page 60 (I changed the titles so I could read them on a reduced
>size picture), and pictures of the Brunswick Mill on page 76. I see that
>the last two pictures are Keck Museum pictures. Do you still give
>permission for them?
>
>I also used the Shaded Relief map , Educational Series E-29, but I added
>some colors to show the locations for sources of salt, copper, wood and
>water for the Comstock.
>
>I think that is all so far. I expect a couple of other pictures to be used
>by other people, but I will write to ask permission when I find out which
>ones they are using.
>
>Do you know if it is OK to use some photos I took of exhibits in the Nevada
>State Museum without their permission? I took a picture of the square set
>timbering model that I would like to use.
>
>Thank you for your help.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Beth Price
>
>

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Meeuwig <dmeeuwig@unr.edu>
To: The Price Family <aaejprice@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: Permission to use a few more pictures?

>Hi, Beth,
>
>You have permission to use the following photos and drawings in your webpage:
>
>Photo of a painting of the Belcher Mine, p. 13 Outline of Nevada Mining
>History, Tingley, Horton, and Lincoln, spec. pub. 15. 1993
>
>Photo of the interior of one of the deep mines, Outline of Nevada History,
>Tingley, Horton, and Lincoln, Spec. Pub. 15, 1993, p. 15
>
>Diagram of various mining methods used on the Comstock Lode, Geologic and
>Natural History Tours in the Reno Area, Purkey and Garside, 1995, p. 58
>
>Cross section of the Sutro Tunnel, Geologic and Natural History Tours in
>the Reno Area, Purkey and Garside, 1995, p. 62
>Geologic map of the Geiger Grade-Virginia City area showing areas of
>altered rocks (after Hudson, 1987), Geologic and Natural History Tours in
>the Reno Area, Purkey and Garside, 1995, p. 44
>
>Dick
>
>

-----Original Message-----
From: lugaski <lugaski@mines.unr.edu>
To: The Price Family <aaejprice@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: Use of pictures in a web site

>Beth:
>
>You have the museum's permission to use the pictures for the web
>site.
>
>
>Tom Lugaski
>
>On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, The Price Family wrote:
>
>> Hello Tom,
>>
>> I am making a interdisciplinary web site about Virginia City with a =
>> couple of other teachers. We would like to use two pictures of the =
>> Brunswick from the NBMG publication, Geologic and Natural History Tours =
>> in the Reno Area, pg. 76. I see on the side of the pictures that these =
>> are Keck Museum pictures. May we use them (with credit, of course) in =
>> the web site? The web site is due this Sunday, so we need permission =
>> (e-mail is fine) right away.
>>
>> Beth
>>

Letter of permission for use of pictures from the Nevada State Museum mine exhibit